I13DT: Daddy Issues

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:40 pm

"Yes, but....I know...." Mars paced back and forth through the gym, talking on her phone. Since her disappearance, her father had decided to keep in touch a bit more.

Mars held the phone away from her ear for a minute. She rolled her eyes as he ranted. When it sounded like he was finally finishing things up, she brought it back to her ear again.

"Okay, sir. Yeah. I love you too. Bye."

Mars closed her phone. Then she made a shrill, frustrated noise.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:22 pm

Mira was coming from another direction, with a tupperware under one arm.

"Weights not cooperating?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:24 pm

"No matter how often I ask, they won't stack themselves neatly on my father," Mars says.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:26 pm

"They're inanimate. You won't have much luck, there."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:35 pm

"Drat," Mars says. She walks over to retrieve her phone. "Sorry. I do not mean to be so...aggravated."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:38 pm

"It happens. Was it anything in specific?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:44 am

"No. My father is just being a --- " Mars makes several cruel remarks in French. "He is a very controlling man. It's annoying."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:11 am

"What does he want you to do?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:12 am

"Generally? Quit school and take over the family business," Mars says.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:20 pm

"And what do YOU want to do?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:26 pm

"I want to join the Avengers someday," Mars says.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:33 pm

"Bold move. You should go for it!"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:42 pm

"That's sort of what I'm doing here," Mars says. "But my dad..."

"What are your parents like?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:28 pm

"I...don't really have parents."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:07 pm

"Oh. I'm sorry," Mars says awkwardly.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:51 pm

"It's alright; I didn't mean to bring you down.

Cupcake?" she said, offering.

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:54 pm

"Really? Yeah, sure," Mars says, taking one. "Thanks. That's so sweet of you."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:04 pm

"I made extras, and while I'm keeping most for me and Kevin, I'm giving some to people who need it. It looks like you need it."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:16 pm

Mars smiles, "...I'm sorry. I didn't even...ugh, I'm being rude today. I'm Mars. Marcie, actually, but I go by Mars."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:41 pm

"Mars, hrm?" Mira chuckled. "The pleasure is all mine. Altamira."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:44 am

"Nice to meet you," Mars says. "Are you one of the University students?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:07 am

"I was. I suppose you could say I'm an emeritus."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:23 pm

Mars blank look said that she didn't know what that was.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:25 pm

"I used to go here, and I keep an office here, but I'm not really 'from' here anymore."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:48 pm

"Where are you from then?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:54 pm

"Spain, actually. That's where I grew up, mostly. Right on the coast."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:01 pm

"I've been to Spain. It's beautiful there," Mars says. "Do you miss it at all?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:13 pm

"Sometimes, yes. I've been away for a while, but that's why I've come back here. TO reconnect with my past, you know?

You should value your past--it helped shape who you are."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:07 am

"I know, I know," Mars sighs. "And the worst part is that it's not like I would mind that much. I like the work and I'm good at it, but I don't want to wish that I had done something else when I'm older. Something...different."

There was also the issue of the criminals and assassins out for her life, but Mars was the type of person to focus on one problem at a time.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:33 am

"I know. It can be tough following your own path AND fulfilling your obligations."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:09 am

"What do you suggest?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:31 am

"I...don't know. I ended up giving up a lot to fulfill my function, but it was to save someone's life. I don't know what choice I would have made otherwise, if I even had a choice."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:40 am

"Maybe that's the problem," Mars says. "Maybe I don't want to lose anything."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:48 pm

"If you don't risk losing things, you'll never gain anything, though. That's how life works. Change."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 4:44 pm

"It shouldn't have to be," Mars says.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:00 pm

"Oh, I don't know about that. A world where everyone could just cling to their old ways would get stagnant pretty quickly, wouldn't you say?"

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:42 pm

"I don't mind change, but why should you have to sacrifice things for it?" Mars asks. "Why can everything just be...good..er."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:07 pm

"Gooder in what context? Because what's gooder to you might not be gooder to someone else."

by **Marcie Tiboldt** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:09 pm

"Why not?" Mars asks. "Why do we have to accept that there has to be an inequality? That everything is finite and what one person has, another has to be deprived of?"

"I mean, why don't we ever question that?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:13 pm

"I wish it were that simple. But until everyone agrees what is good, someone will be displeased with any choice you could make. Just make sure it's not YOU who are displeased."

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